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Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.
Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.
How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.
My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.
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